>
>Pete Smith wrote:
>>
>> Makes ya wonder how
>> we survived those days...
>
>Many of us didn't.
? amen
>I'm sort of an amateur historian and I love to read old
>QST's from the 30's and 40's. Every couple of months there was a note about
>some guy going to the big pileup in the sky as a result of a sloppy attitude
>toward HV. I'm always amazed when I think about the standards of those
>days -- open racks with plug-in coils (series fed, of course), etc.
? when folks drove cars without benefit of seatbelts.
>Maybe we've
>gone a bit overboard these days with some of our concerns (HF RF exposure, for
>example), but those guys took their lives in their hands whenever they
>changed bands.
>
? not those who switched the B+ off and fastened a ground hook to the B+
feed
cheers, Vic
Rich...
R. L. Measures, 805-386-3734, AG6K, www.vcnet.com/measures
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